The purpose of the project was to increase border cooperation in the restoration and maintenance of wooden buildings, in order to preserve the mutual building heritage. During the project, the intention was to relay information about the regulations and guidelines on the care of Russian and Finnish wooden buildings and to organise restoration training to Finnish restoration planners together with restoration and construction staff , and to distribute information about sustainable restoration methods. It was also the intention to copy the planning permission drawings of the historical wooden buildings of Sortavala in the provincial archives of Mikkeli and forward them to the Department of Architecture and City Planning of Sortavala. There were also intentions in this project to organise two seminars on the restoration of log buildings and related corporate visits in the Republic of Karelia and North Karelia, and support cultural environment-based education. The result of the project would be the Russian translation of the restoration cards of the National Board of Antiquities and the Finnish translation of the restoration instructions of the Russian Ministry of Culture, published as a book and linked as web pages to the home pages of the cultural heritage authorities.